Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan, MD, are pledging $3 billion over 10 years to set up a biotech hub in San Francisco that will link researchers from UCSF, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. (San Francisco Business Times)

A drug listed at up to $2 million per year per patient -- for life -- is actually cost-effective, says Britain's healthcare cost agency NICE, although it adds that a price cut would be welcome. (Reuters)

Why do parents resort to unproven -- and sometimes dangerous -- treatments for their children's autism? Spectrum Newsdives deep into the question.

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